. . .Most Americans have never heard
of Avigdor Lieberman, but they
need to know precisely who this
dangerous and influential demagogue
is, because he will be the
Israeli official who defines Israel’s war-mongering policy
toward Iran.. . .As a high-level Israeli power broker, Lieberman may well
be the one individual who has the very real capacity to
spark the next world war. He is the Zionist state’s chief tactician
in the ongoing effort by Israel and its American lobby
to force mothers and fathers in the United States to dispatch
their sons and daughters into a war against Israel’s perceived
number one enemy: the Islamic Republic of Iran.. . .A veteran Israeli hate-monger, known for his angry racist
rhetoric aimed at Christian Arabs and their Muslim brothers,
Lieberman has been a fixture in Israeli politics for more
than 20 years, in spite of — or perhaps because of — his
alleged ties to Russian-based Jewish organized crime elements
who maintain Israeli citizenship.. . .The rising popularity and political influence of
Lieberman, Israel’s new deputy prime minister, and its firstever
cabinet-level “minister for strategic affairs,” is not just
a reflection of what some call “Israel’s dark side,” but rather,
instead, represents the reality of opinion amongst a large
segment of the population in Israel today.. . .A so-called “hard-liner” and “right winger,” Lieberman
has been referred to as “the Israeli Hitler,” and, in fact, his
views do reflect a form of “Jewish Fascism,” a striking mirror
image of the so-called “Islamic Fascists” about whom we
hear so much in the controlled media in America today.. . .Lieberman is the key contact in Israel that Israel’s well-heeled
advocates in the United States are in liaison with in
the carefully orchestrated push for the Bush administration,
with the support of its ostensible “critics” in Congress, to
attack Iran, even using nuclear weapons.. . .Through his influential positioning, Lieberman is coordinating
Israel’s American-based lobbying and propaganda
groups — such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish
Committee and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai
B’rith, among others — in working to push America into
more wars in the Middle East.. . .Lieberman remains highly regarded among not only his
Israeli followers, but among American partisans of Israel,
who have no reservations about this no-holds-barred bigot.
His harsh rhetoric against Christian Palestinians and their
Muslim brothers recalls the venomous outbursts of a former
Israeli cabinet minister, Rehavam Ze-evi who once
called Christians and Muslims “lice” and said they were like
a “cancer” destroying the Jewish
state.

. . .Arising from the traditional "Greater Israel" school of
thought, Lieberman dreams of the
day when the Jewish state stretches
from “the Nile to the
Euphrates.” In other words,
Israel’s borders will reach from
inside the current borders of
Egypt and eastward, to assume
command of all of not only
Lebanon, Syria and Jordan but
also substantial portions of Iraq
and Saudi Arabia.. . .The ongoing U.S. occupation
of Iraq, following the U.S. offensive
against that secular Arab
republic — largely stimulated by
pressure from the Israeli lobby in
Washington — is perceived today
by many in the Arab world (and
in the Muslim world generally) to
be a partial step toward fulfillment
of the dream of Greater
Israel. The destruction of Iran, followed
by a U.S. occupation,
would simply be another additional
land grab on behalf of
Israel’s geopolitical ambitions.. . .Observers from all points of view on the political spectrum
assert that Lieberman’s alliance with the government of
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, leader of the Kadima
Party, has strengthened Lieberman and his own Yisrael
Beiteinu Party. Although the English translation of the party’s
name — “Israel is Our Home” — sounds quaint and cozy,
Lieberman’s party calls for what is no less than the “ethnic
cleansing” of the Christians and Muslims living in Israel.. . .Growing numbers of Lieberman’s countrymen hail him
for his raucous demands that Christian Arabs and Muslim
Arabs living inside Israel or under Israeli control be “transferred.”. . .In truth, what Lieberman and his followers are advocating
is genocide, pure and simple, precisely as defined by the
international Genocide Convention. Genocide isn’t just
murder, under the terms of the global convention. It also
includes the forced transfer of ethnic populations. So while
Lieberman and his co-religionists in Israel and around the
globe are constantly bewailing genocidal policies against
Jewish people, both real and imaginary, Lieberman has
emerged as a much-beloved voice for many Israelis who
want genocide to be practiced against the Arabs.. . .Although there are those in both Israel and the United
States who put forth the theme that Lieberman is some sort of
political aberration — that he represents a loud and fanatic but
relatively small body of opinion in Israel — there are informed
analysts who don’t buy that theory. Instead, they say,
Lieberman is simply saying loudly and without hesitation
what many people in Israel and its satellite, America, and its
are thinking, protests to the contrary notwithstanding.